Distribution: Faroe Channel (type locality) and off Iceland. Elsewhere, off north-western Africa from Mauritania and western Sahara; also scattered records off east coast of North America from South Carolina to Newfoundland and Davis Strait. Specimens resembling this species known from New Zealand.

Goode, G. B.; Bean, T. H. 1883. Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U.S. coast survey steamer 'Blake', commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. Report on the fishes. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 10 (5) :183-226.